All Posts Tagged With: "abortion"
Insurance for Abortion: What's Wrong with This Picture?
The health-insurance nationalization bill that passed the House Saturday night has a lot of enemies. One reason for this is that in order to get a majority to support the bill, House Speaker Pelosi had to accept an amendment by Rep. Bart Stupak that would ban tax-funded abortions (except for rape, incest and danger to [...]
10Nov2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedUnions and Abortion Protestors
The National Organization for Women (NOW) and labor unions have a long record of supporting each other in their respective public-policy wars, so one could reasonably expect the AFL-CIO to be on NOW’s side in Scheidler v. NOW, a long-running case that was finally decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in February. But NOW and [...]
1May2006 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – June 2003
Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans by Charlotte Twight St. Martin’s Press/Palgrave • 2002 • 512 pages • $26.95 hardcover; $17.95 paperback Reviewed by James Bovard Charlotte Twight has written an excellent book to help Americans understand how the federal government is insidiously seizing control of their lives, year by year, edict [...]
1Jun2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Inhumanity of Population Control
Once again the Bush administration has come under fire for a decision that runs counter to conventional wisdom. Undeterred by widespread denunciations after opposing the Kyoto Protocol, it announced that funds appropriated by Congress to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) would be cut back. With all the hue and cry about the dangers of [...]
1Aug2002 | Christopher Lingle | 2 comments | ContinuedKnut Wicksell: A Sesquicentennial Appreciation
Richard Ebeling is the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics and chairman of the economics department at Hillsdale College. In the early months of 1889 a 37-year-old Swedish student named Knut Wicksell was walking through the streets of Berlin in Germany when he happened to notice in the window of a bookstore a recently published [...]
1Dec2001 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedA “Family” Crisis at the United Nations
In 1979 the General Assembly of the United Nations passed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which the United States has yet to ratify. Also in 1979 “the International Year of the Child” the U.N. began discussion of a draft agreement on the rights of children, which resulted [...]
1Oct2001 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | ContinuedCutting Off Subsidies Restricts Freedom?
One of President George W. Bush’s first acts on taking office was to end taxpayer subsidies to private organizations that provide abortion services overseas. The bellyaching was predictable and deafening. What is sadly emblematic of our time is the fallacy that underlay the protest. Typical was the New York Times editorial of January 24, which [...]
1May2001 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedNational Health Care: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945
Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D., a physician and anthropologist, directs the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., which recently brought from Berlin the exhibition, “The Value of the Human Being: Medicine in Germany 1918-1945,” curated by Christian Pross and Götz Aly. Today we are concerned about issues such as doctor-assisted suicide, abortion, [...]
1Nov1993 | Marc S. Micozzi M.D. | 43 comments | Continued-
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